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Google Cloud is the number 4 most monitored status page on StatusGator and Google Apps is number 12. In addition, at least 20 other services we monitor seemingl

Google Cloud is the number 4 most monitored status page on StatusGator and Google Apps is number 12. In addition, at least 20 other services we monitor seemingly depend on Google Cloud because they all posted issues as soon as Google went down. It's always interesting to see these outages at large cloud providers spider out across the rest of the internet, a lot of the world depends on Google to stay up.

hazeii 7y ago
...and only the paranoid survive?
- MrMorden 7y ago
  Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
FPGAhacker 7y ago
I guess we know what steam uses (the store at least).
- xNevo 7y ago
  No issues for me. Maybe they have a failover mechanism?
  - FPGAhacker 7y ago
    yeah, maybe it was coincidence. seems to be back up for me as well: https://steamstat.us https://steamstat.us
- colinbartlett 7y ago
  I don't know about Steam, but I know Apple must use Google Cloud: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
  - djsumdog 7y ago
    Guess they don't eat their own dog food; no racks of proprietary Apple servers anywhere (unless they somehow run Darwin images in Google Cloud)
    - londons_explore 7y ago
      Can't tell if you know the answer to your own question and just can't talk about it due to NDA...
    - runlevel1 7y ago
      Apple runs Linux on the vast majority of the servers behind their cloud offerings.
  - gowld 7y ago
    Less than 1% of users are affected Is there any reason to presume these statuses are correlated? Apple's issue is > Users may be experiencing slower than normal performance with this service.
    - colinbartlett 7y ago
      I'm just assuming they are because it's been previously reported that Apple uses GCP (and also AWS). https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google-cloud-platform-and-amazon-s3-for-icloud-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google...
    - kalleboo 7y ago
      Could be the only users who were affected were ones caught right in the failover between redundant clouds
hhs 7y ago
"a lot of the world depends on Google to stay up." Yup, I'm trying to check the Associated Press News right now and it's having trouble connecting to "storage.googleapis.com".
nabla9 7y ago
This feels like 80's. When the mainframe is down terminals are useless.
- pmlnr 7y ago
  Yep. The cloud is just a lot of cheap hardware acting together as a shitty mainframe.
  - ktpsns 7y ago
    Server hardware is actually quite expensive. End users "smart" phones are cheap hardware, running dumb software which renders them as terminals for the cloud. That's sad because smartphone hardware is quite capable of doing useful work. (For instance, I have a 500GB MicroSD card in my phone which contains a copy of my OwnCloud)

hazeii 7y ago

...and only the paranoid survive?

MrMorden 7y ago
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

FPGAhacker 7y ago

I guess we know what steam uses (the store at least).

xNevo 7y ago
No issues for me. Maybe they have a failover mechanism?
- FPGAhacker 7y ago
  yeah, maybe it was coincidence. seems to be back up for me as well: https://steamstat.us https://steamstat.us
colinbartlett 7y ago
I don't know about Steam, but I know Apple must use Google Cloud: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
- djsumdog 7y ago
  Guess they don't eat their own dog food; no racks of proprietary Apple servers anywhere (unless they somehow run Darwin images in Google Cloud)
  - londons_explore 7y ago
    Can't tell if you know the answer to your own question and just can't talk about it due to NDA...
  - runlevel1 7y ago
    Apple runs Linux on the vast majority of the servers behind their cloud offerings.
- gowld 7y ago
  Less than 1% of users are affected Is there any reason to presume these statuses are correlated? Apple's issue is > Users may be experiencing slower than normal performance with this service.
  - colinbartlett 7y ago
    I'm just assuming they are because it's been previously reported that Apple uses GCP (and also AWS). https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google-cloud-platform-and-amazon-s3-for-icloud-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google...
  - kalleboo 7y ago
    Could be the only users who were affected were ones caught right in the failover between redundant clouds

hhs 7y ago

"a lot of the world depends on Google to stay up." Yup, I'm trying to check the Associated Press News right now and it's having trouble connecting to "storage.googleapis.com".

nabla9 7y ago

This feels like 80's. When the mainframe is down terminals are useless.

pmlnr 7y ago
Yep. The cloud is just a lot of cheap hardware acting together as a shitty mainframe.
- ktpsns 7y ago
  Server hardware is actually quite expensive. End users "smart" phones are cheap hardware, running dumb software which renders them as terminals for the cloud. That's sad because smartphone hardware is quite capable of doing useful work. (For instance, I have a 500GB MicroSD card in my phone which contains a copy of my OwnCloud)